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• Bush critic Krugman wins economics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns. The Princeton ...
• Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views
Daniel Klein, a libertarian economics professor at George Mason University in Virginia and a critic of the influence of left-leaning college professors, said too many students aren't offered a wide range of viewpoints in their classes. He said it's ...
• Dairy blames toxic milk on subcontractors
We thought they were operating in good conscience,” Guo Benheng said on state television’s economics channel. “I’d say we made an innocent mistake, although an innocent mistake is still a mistake. We are definitely making corrections,” Guo ...
• Short-Sellers: Unfairly Targeted in the Market Crisis?
Conversely, payout of the insurance on those contracts will be 91.375% by AIG, JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Wachovia (WB), and RBS (RBS), among others," Action Economics said. If some of those institutions aren't able to come up with the cash ...